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2021 Lynchburg city, VA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Lynchburg city, VA went without power for an average of 4.7 hours, a total of 279K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.7 hours). That ranks 86th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 1387th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Lynchburg city, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 4, 2021 11:45 | May 7, 2021 01:00 | 2d 13h | 6,430 | 66K |
| 2 | February 13, 2021 09:15 | February 17, 2021 04:45 | 3d 19h | 4,233 | 55K |
| 3 | October 15, 2021 22:00 | October 17, 2021 00:45 | 1d 2h | 4,107 | 14K |
| 4 | March 8, 2021 14:00 | April 2, 2021 10:15 | 24d 20h | 3,284 | 6,264 |
| 5 | October 29, 2021 18:45 | October 29, 2021 22:30 | 3h 45m | 2,621 | 7,170 |
| 6 | August 16, 2021 03:45 | August 16, 2021 06:30 | 2h 45m | 1,835 | 3,207 |
| 7 | July 17, 2021 15:15 | July 17, 2021 21:00 | 5h 45m | 1,565 | 905 |
| 8 | November 5, 2021 04:15 | November 5, 2021 11:30 | 7h 15m | 1,562 | 1,964 |
| 9 | October 23, 2021 07:30 | October 23, 2021 14:30 | 7h | 1,534 | 2,993 |
| 10 | August 18, 2021 10:00 | August 18, 2021 21:45 | 11h 45m | 1,497 | 5,898 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 76 reached 100+ customers, 17 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Lynchburg city reported on EIA Form 861 for 2021, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Appalachian Power Co | 2021 | 22.1 hrs | 2.24 | 7.7 hrs | 1.84 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 97% of Virginia's customers in 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 59,258 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Lynchburg city has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lynchburg city, VA annual power outage report, 2021, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2021/virginia/lynchburg-city